Coombe Hill Golf Club is one of the few courses designed by J.F. “Aber” Abercromby and the heavily wooded layout is quintessentially English.
Coombe Hill Golf Club
Coombe Hill Golf Club is one of the few courses designed by J.F. “Aber” Abercromby and the heavily wooded layout is quintessentially English.
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John Abercromby joined forces with Herbert Fowler, Tom Simpson and Arthur Croome; most of “Aber's” work was in collaboration with Fowler around the sandy heathlands of London.
John Abercromby was the son of a medical doctor, James Abercromby, who died very young at the age of 40 in Cape Town, South Africa, when John was only ten years old. His widowed mother Johanna moved the family to Britain soon after her husband passed away, settling in Felixstowe on the coast of Suffolk.
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